Macca
New member
straight from Penny Arcade
"I don't know if talking about the Metroids Prime and Fusion is polite, seeing as we have them before the release date, and you aren't due to get them for another four days or so. On the other hand, I really can't think about anything else but those games.
Nintendo has a "company store" you can sometimes buy things at early, and if you know somebody who works there it's not that hard to leverage it. I'm under the impression it happens a lot. As a side-note, the people we know at Nintendo are feverishly loyal. I mean this in comparison to the guys I know at Microsoft. Seriously. All you have to do is scratch their belly a little bit, and they're on that backs, kicking their legs, shouting the names of top secret games so loud it hurts your ears. A lot of times I'll grill our guys at the big N for information, or I'll pretend I have information and try to get them to confirm it, and it never works out.
So, what are you working on now? That new multiplayer Metroid? Or is it the Pokemon?
"I don't know what you're talking about."
Under very specific conditions, I'm actually sort of famous. Doesn't that make you want to tell me things?
"I don't think we have any projects like that, I'm sorry."
Then I'll just kind of smile and nod my head slowly, as though in possession of secret, forbidden knowledge, which I conceptualize as a green jewel. They'll just look confused and shake their heads the other way. Sometimes I'll try to trip them up by shaking my head and frowning, and then switching right back, but these are guys are on some serious KGB shit or something and they're not having it. Anyway, it's this guy that let us in and it's not the first time. We owe him. "
lol, if you don't read their rants i suggest you begin, they are hilarious
"I don't know if talking about the Metroids Prime and Fusion is polite, seeing as we have them before the release date, and you aren't due to get them for another four days or so. On the other hand, I really can't think about anything else but those games.
Nintendo has a "company store" you can sometimes buy things at early, and if you know somebody who works there it's not that hard to leverage it. I'm under the impression it happens a lot. As a side-note, the people we know at Nintendo are feverishly loyal. I mean this in comparison to the guys I know at Microsoft. Seriously. All you have to do is scratch their belly a little bit, and they're on that backs, kicking their legs, shouting the names of top secret games so loud it hurts your ears. A lot of times I'll grill our guys at the big N for information, or I'll pretend I have information and try to get them to confirm it, and it never works out.
So, what are you working on now? That new multiplayer Metroid? Or is it the Pokemon?
"I don't know what you're talking about."
Under very specific conditions, I'm actually sort of famous. Doesn't that make you want to tell me things?
"I don't think we have any projects like that, I'm sorry."
Then I'll just kind of smile and nod my head slowly, as though in possession of secret, forbidden knowledge, which I conceptualize as a green jewel. They'll just look confused and shake their heads the other way. Sometimes I'll try to trip them up by shaking my head and frowning, and then switching right back, but these are guys are on some serious KGB shit or something and they're not having it. Anyway, it's this guy that let us in and it's not the first time. We owe him. "
lol, if you don't read their rants i suggest you begin, they are hilarious
